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Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving
HughPickens.com writes: Christine Hauser writes in the NY Times that police in Lakeland, Florida say 911 dispatchers started receiving calls Saturday from viewers who were watching a woman broadcasting herself while apparently driving drunk, using the live-streaming app Periscope. Despite the tip being generated in the virtual world, it took some traditional police sleuthing to find the woman and, ultimately, arrest and charge her. The woman first invited her viewers to follow her as she went bar-hopping in downtown Lakeland. During the live stream, Beall repeatedly said that she was drunk and appeared to be asking viewers for directions. She noticed that there were at least 57 people watching and asked, "So where am I right now, people?" One 911 caller said Beall was driving a Toyota in the north Lakeland area. "I just saw a girl on Periscope driving drunk. She doesn't know where she is and she's driving really fast," said the caller. As officers pulled Beall over, her 2015 Toyota Corolla, which already had a flat right front tire, rammed into a curb. Beall failed the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and she refused the breathalyzer test.
I often wonder if social media is just making people more stupid....
Or if social media just brings the people that are stupid more out of the woodwork for the rest of us to see.
Why would anyone FB, Tweet, Periscope or whatever ANY activity that might potentially get you jailed?
We see gang members with FB pages of stolen goods, drugs and cash online. This chick live streams a drunk drive home (not to mention many shots of her early drinking heavily with a timecode attached to it)...I mean, why do people gather so much evidence against themselves and just hand it to the police?
Are we just getting dumber as a country?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........